Before leaving Hannibal this morning I got one more piece of fabric to complete my lap quilt. It's gonna be gorgeous and so warm when winter comes! While waiting Terry, Martha and Dave walked around. Terry found Grant's Drugstore, above which Samuel Clemens family used to live before the bigger home.
So........from 9:45 to 5:00, we rode. And we saw corn, corn and more corn. I kid you not. Mile after mile after mile of corn.....in fact, hundreds of miles of corn. Corn up hills and down hills, across hills, and any other way it can grow. Lots of silos to put it in, too. It was within feet of houses and subdivisions. A tiny fraction was a little bit green, but the rest was dead, dead, dead. Now don't get me wrong, it was a pretty sight. The sky was as blue and cloudless as could be, and we enjoyed every mile of being in awe of so much corn. But it was one hell of a lot of corn!
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| That house is a long way from where we were. |
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| We saw corn! |
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More corn and farmland
Finally we stopped seeing so much corn as we got closer to the Mississippi River again. We stopped at Pikes Peak State Park in Marquette, Iowa and had a wonderful view of where the Wisconsin River runs into the Mississippi River. There are lots of islands and peninsulas. Houses on the peninsulas were built on stilts, but we couldn't but help wonder what is must be like when it floods. We looked for eagles as this area is supposed to be plentiful with eagles.
We saw nary one! Tonight we are in Pairie du Chen, Wisconsin. The weather is cool, our supper was terrible and we are all ready to hit the sack.
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The Wisconsin River in far view runs into the MS
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| Islands in the Mississippi River and a barge beside one of them. |
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